PSD: The file type is not supported

[Joachim_L]

When I try to open the attached PSD with AP I get the error message "The file type is not supported". Maybe the Affinity applications should be more informative like "Sorry, currently we do not support Duplex files" or something similar?

psd-sonderfarbe.psd

[fde101]

It's not just the Affinity products that won't open this.

Corel Painter: "The file must be grayscale or RGB."

The old version of Pixelmator I have claims the document is damaged or incompatible.

 

Preview (macOS) shows it as a 200x200 pixel "Gray" color space image, just a plain gray square.  GIMP seems to render it the same way.

OpenOffice Draw also shows the plain gray square - not sure if that is what it should be?

QuarkXPress 2018 shows it as a plain square in some color that is not quite gray.

 

Here are some details on the format according to GIMP:

 

 

 

So there is a mixed bag of some programs that are ok with it and others that claim it is invalid or unsupported in some way.  Corel Painter claims it is neither grayscale nor RGB but GIMP and macOS Preview both claim it is grayscale.  There does seem to be something a bit unusual about the way this file was written then...  i do find it curious that GIMP is reading this as a grayscale image but also giving it an sRGB colorspace and listing three color components in the number of bits per sample - something there doesn't quite seem to add up?

[fde101]

Ok, so evidently the three color components and sRGB is normal for opening a grayscale image in GIMP - not sure why but if I export a grayscale image from Affinity Photo as a PSD and import into GIMP I get the same.

 

However, the numeric "ColorMode" for the attached image was 8, while the one exported from Affinity Photo is 1, though both are showing as "8-bit gamma integer" / "Grayscale" according to GIMP:

 

 

Also, the one exported from Affinity Photo opens flawlessly in Painter.

[walt.farrell]

Exiftool reports:
 

ExifTool Version Number         : 11.57
File Name                       : psd-sonderfarbe.psd
Directory                       : C:/Users/Walt/Documents/affinity/temp
File Size                       : 24 kB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2020:06:11 08:42:21-04:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2020:06:11 08:42:21-04:00
File Creation Date/Time         : 2020:06:11 08:42:19-04:00
File Permissions                : rw-rw-rw-
File Type                       : PSD
File Type Extension             : psd
MIME Type                       : application/vnd.adobe.photoshop
Num Channels                    : 1
Image Height                    : 200
Image Width                     : 200
Bit Depth                       : 8
IPTC Digest                     : 00000000000000000000000000000000
XMP Toolkit                     : Adobe XMP Core 5.3-c011 66.145661, 2012/02/06-14:56:27
Creator Tool                    : Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
Create Date                     : 2020:06:10 16:43:57+02:00
Metadata Date                   : 2020:06:10 16:44:50+02:00
Format                          : application/vnd.adobe.photoshop
Instance ID                     : xmp.iid:B0B269D028ABEA11B367BE84B7A37D55
Document ID                     : xmp.did:AFB269D028ABEA11B367BE84B7A37D55
Original Document ID            : xmp.did:AFB269D028ABEA11B367BE84B7A37D55
History Action                  : created, saved
History Instance ID             : xmp.iid:AFB269D028ABEA11B367BE84B7A37D55, xmp.iid:B0B269D028ABEA11B367BE84B7A37D55
History When                    : 2020:06:10 16:43:57+02:00, 2020:06:10 16:44:50+02:00
History Software Agent          : Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows), Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
History Changed                 : /
Color Mode                      : Duotone
X Resolution                    : 72
Displayed Units X               : inches
Y Resolution                    : 72
Displayed Units Y               : inches
Print Style                     : Centered
Print Position                  : 0 0
Print Scale                     : 1
Global Angle                    : 120
Global Altitude                 : 30
URL List                        :
Slices Group Name               :
Num Slices                      : 1
Pixel Aspect Ratio              : 1
Photoshop Thumbnail             : (Binary data 1030 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Has Real Merged Data            : Yes
Writer Name                     : Adobe Photoshop
Reader Name                     : Adobe Photoshop CS6
Exif Byte Order                 : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)
Orientation                     : Horizontal (normal)
Resolution Unit                 : inches
Software                        : Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
Modify Date                     : 2020:06:10 16:44:50
Color Space                     : Uncalibrated
Exif Image Width                : 200
Exif Image Height               : 200
Thumbnail Offset                : 302
Thumbnail Length                : 0
Layer Count                     : 0
Compression                     : RLE
Image Size                      : 200x200
Megapixels                      : 0.040
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My guess is that it's the "Color mode: Duotone" that is the problem, since Affinity doesn't provide Duotone support as far as I know.

[Joachim_L]

I do not complain about the inability to import duotone, I "complain" about the generic error message. To some point Affinity reads the file to judge, that the format is not supported, so the error message could tell the real reason?